Doc 40

Monday, July 15, 2013

Robert Reich is
Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at
Berkeley and was part of Bill Clinton’s cabinet. He nutshell’s the current social
savagery neatly and succinctly.

“Suppose a small group of extremely wealthy people sought to
systematically destroy the U.S. government by (1) finding and bankrolling new
candidates pledged to shrinking and dismembering it; (2) intimidating or
bribing many current senators and representatives to block all proposed
legislation, prevent the appointment of presidential nominees, eliminate funds
to implement and enforce laws, and threaten to default on the nation's debt;
(3) taking over state governments in order to redistrict, gerrymander, require
voter IDs, purge voter rolls, and otherwise suppress the votes of the majority
in federal elections; (4) running a vast PR campaign designed to convince the
American public of certain big lies, such as climate change is a hoax, and (5)
buying up the media so the public cannot know the truth.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

IS THIS WHAT THE KID HANGS ON HIS WALL A COUPLE OF WEEKS
BEFORE HE SHOOTS UP THE SCHOOL?

Earlier, I noted on Facebook about the New World Order that
“They are with us now. They have seized power. Except they no longer play the
steam punk-Nazi sado-masochistic threatening romance. They come in expensive two
button suits and blue ties – except of course Merkel and Hillary “ The lesson
has clearly been learned everywhere except maybe North Korea that the
old-school, Josef Goebbels/Busby Berkeley fascist display no long plays in the
Brave New World of Goldman Sachs, Monsanto and the IMF. This would seem to have
been bequeathed to the psychotic adolescent wet dream substrata of skinhead and
madly right visor-goths. So do we ignore this jerk-off, post-Frazetta posturing
as nothing more than teen-boy confusion inadequacy and just sell them more Saw
movies and chop shop apocalypse video games? Hell, no. These are the future drone
fodder and riot squads. They will be the ones finally getting their rocks off
behind the guns and clubs, the tasers and the gas. Don’t turn your back on
them.

Thursday, July 04, 2013

Kinda hard for us Brits to share the July 4th fireworks. I
was our ass you kicked out.

“We refer to "the mainstream" meaning MSM – but
that is a term we all need to stop using. To refer to THE CORPORATE MEDIA as
"the mainstream media" is to imply that the alternative is
"fringe". Corporate media dominate the airwaves and many newspapers,
thus they still dominate public opinion--but even in the US, people are
increasingly turning to the internet where there is a much wider spectrum. The
economic power of corporations gives them all kinds of political power--we need
not give them legitimacy as well by calling their media outlets
"mainstream." This story is a fine example of how extreme the
supposed "mainstream" is--everyone is in agreement that a
whistleblower who exposed massive government surveillance of essentially
everybody, is a "traitor", really? While corruption is rampant
throughout government, banksters go unpunished for obvious massive fraud and a
guy who scrawled messages on sidewalk in front of Bank of America branches in
San Diego is beginning a trial today, facing years in prison and his lawyer is
not allowed to mention the First Amendment?

The classic
scene in the 19th and 20th centuries – part fact, part
fiction – when the officer orders his men to open fire on the starving workers
as the bread riot gets underway, and, one by one, the soldiers lower their guns
and then turn them on the bloody officers. It’s the cliché tipping point of
revolution. Am I deluding myself with wishful thinking that Edward Snowden,
Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, all the way back to Daniel Ellsberg, are a
more modern version of the same revolutionary. Can all those wage slaves at the
NSA, CIA, GCHQ, etc. fucking over their comrades and spying them night and day become
mad as hell and refuse to take it any more. Okay so the crypto-fascist
cocksuckers in power are watching every move we make. Fuck ‘em. Give them the
finger and go on making the move. They can’t arrest all of us. That’s welcome
to Planet Gulag.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Tomorrow
(Tuesday) I’ll be on the radio with all kind of bold talk, out-there cutups,
inspired bullshit and also a premiere of The Deviants new single Fury Of The
Mob. That’s on www.basic.fm at 11PM UK summertime.

Join me in WITHDRAWING UNPAID LABOUR from the
creative and media industries. The exploitation of freelance content providers
has gone on too long, and we are all responsible for letting it happen.

Please do not:• Write, act, photograph or design for free• Provide images, music or performances for
free• Do radio or television interviews for freeIf a company or corporation asks you to provide
your time and skills for nothing, TURN IT DOWN. You have nothing to lose by
saying NO.If you have any concern at all for your economic
future as a content provider – and for the future of subsequent generations of
such providers – please don't ignore this issue.PASS THE WORD ON to any content providers you know.

Further thoughts for those with a slightly longer
attention span…TO THE EXPLOITED:• If you allow yourself to be seduced by the myth
that your unpaid labour will "look good on your c.v." (or equivalent
blah), try to see that you jeopardise not only the welfare of your replaceable
elders but your OWN long-term economic future.• You set up a paradigm whereby you in turn become
replaceable. The rolling exploitation of unpaid workers and perpetual interns
is based on a false notion of deferred reward.• If we do not start demanding recompense,
ultimately humans will have no value. As Jaron Lanier states in his essential
new book WHO OWNS THE FUTURE?, "Capitalism only works if there are enough
successful people to be the customers."• How is it that our online habits have huge
big-data value to tax-avoidant entities like Google, Facebook and Amazon yet NO
VALUE WHATSOEVER when we request payment for our contributions to the networked
information economy?• We must return to the core humanist principle of
valuing not just institutions and material things but actual living humans.• If the present economic paradigm prevails, it
will vindicate Margaret Thatcher's contention that there is no such thing as
society. Wouldn't it be nice to prove her wrong?TO THE EXPLOITERS:• If you are making money from the labour of
others, then you should share that wealth with them.• If you knowingly exploit somebody while telling
yourself, "Why would I pay someone if s/he's willing to work for
nothing?", how do you sleep at night?• If you habitually hire interns, at what point
does their work experience end? At what point does somebody actually become
WORTH PAYING?• The culture of internship and work experience
sustains class inequality, because only privileged kids can work for free. Only
THEY receive the economic subsidy the government withholds from those born poor
and with little hope of educational betterment.• This is not only a moral but a MARKET imperative.
In the long term markets will collapse if there aren't enough people sharing in
the wealth.

THANKS FOR LISTENING.

Barney also adds a footnote
from dreadlocked Silicon Valley maverick Jaron Lanier’s Who Owns The Future?:“As much as it pains me to say so, we can
survive if we only destroy the middle classes of musicians, journalists and
photographers. What is not survivable is the additional destruction of the
middle classes in transportation, manufacturing, energy, office work, education
and health care. And all that destruction will come surely enough if the
dominant idea of an information economy isn’t improved.”